AS Media Ben Smith: January 2012

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Research and Planning: Photographs (Un-Edited)

These are a selection of pictures I took, there's roughly 3 different locations throughout all of the images took. These aren't edited yet but will be edited before using them in my magazine. I tried to produce a natural and non-artificial look to these pictures as this fits my genre better.

Monday, 9 January 2012

Research and Planning: Double Page Spread Story

Introduce yourself to us and the readers of Unheard. Introduce yourself to the world.

I’m George Osborne, straight outta Manchester. I rap, sing, make beats and have fun with it all. I keep everything chilled, and keep everything me.

Your music is defiantly different, who did you listen to as you grew up?

I grew up listening to all different types of music. From Greenday and The Killers to Eminem and OutKast. My brother listened to stuff like DMX and TuPac. So there was always different
music playing around the
house.

How old were you when you realised music was for you?

I’ve been singing and playing around with music for as long as can remember, playing instruments and making ‘music’ since I was about six years old. But I was 14 when I became serious, making my own beats and writing my own lyrics. It’s all grown from there and now music is my life, I have nothing to fall back on if this fails.

What instruments do you play?

Piano, guitar, drums and bass. I try and get into production as much as i can too.

Does your producer hate that?

<Laughs> nah, we work together on most of the beats and production of the music. Me, him and Wes have been making a lot of songs from scratch lately. It’s been cool though, because I did create all different types of music, everything from alternative rock to what I’m doing now.

What are you working on at the moment?

Well I’ve just been writing recently, haven’t gotten out of the crib too much as I’m just constantly writing new material. When I get out I head down to the studio or go and chill with the rest of my crew, this is usually when my best lyrics will come, when I’m out with them I can write easily, they’re big influences on my music.

How do they influence your music?
it’s not just they influence it, they all get involved. I meen Wes has been my right hand man, my homie and my best friend before all this stuff started. When we started this whole music thing properly everyone wanted to get involved coz’ nobody wanted to just sit there whilst I rapped. I told Wes ‘yooo, you could be the face of YouTube and really get the videos poppin’ Wes’s the promotor of all things visual and he’s doing a sick job. He’s defianatly helped get where were are today due to the success of the music videos he has directed and pushed.

You’ve recently left school, how was your final year? You already had a fair bit of hype...

It was cool, I hadn’t dropped any major mixtapes or anything I just used to freestyle in the canteen and shit. Alot of kids did, we all just use to have fun with lyrics. As far as what I was supossed to be concentrating on in school....<Laughs> that wasn’t quite so successful as how the music stuff has turned out, my grades weren’t the best, they used to be, but by the time my final year came round I realised academic subjects and studying wasn’t for me. I wanted to make music.

Do you think your recent fame has changed you?

Not at all, I’m still the same guy I’ve always been. I still live in the same place and kick it with the same homies. The only thing that’s changed is the girls that used to blow me off in high school now won’t stop texting me! <Laughs> But nah, I haven’t changed. I’m just a normal guy, I still get the train everywhere and shit.

When’s the music video for ‘Shuffle’ out?

16th of February, you can see it at Westv.com an can cop my single from there too.

Any last words before you go?

Yeh, shoutout Unheard for the interview, shoutout the whole team, Manchester for creating me and just everyone showing crazy love. Big up and peace.